Friedkin—who directed the original Exorcist film in 1973—died this past August
The Exorcist: Believer director David Gordon Green really wanted to go against the old adage and meet his hero, but in this case, it’s probably a good thing that never came to be. William Friedkin, who forever changed the horror genre with his Oscar-nominated “theological thriller” The Exorcist in 1973, died this past August at the age of 87. “I was looking forward to showing the film, because I never communicated with him.
Green’s stab at recapturing Friedkin’s macabre magic has already raked in a number of terrible reviews and earned a “D” grade from The A.V. Club. “The film is a grab bag of half-baked ideas that never coalesce into a coherent theme or a reason to exist,” Leigh Monson writes. Still, Green does seem to have made his peace with the fact that Friedkin may not have been totally possessed by his effort.
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